The Boxer Simon And Garfunkel Chords

[Gbm] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ I am just a poor boy, though my [Abm] story's seldom told,
I [Gb] squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles,
[B] Such are promises.
_ _ [Gb] All [Abm] lies and jests, [Gb] still the man [E] hears what he wants to hear,
And [B] disregards the rest.
[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ When _ _ I left my home and my family, I [Gb] was no [Abm] more than a boy [Gb] in the company of strangers,
In the quiet of the railway [B] station, running scared.
_ _ [Gb]
[Abm] They ain't no [Gb] seeking out the [E] poor quarters where the ragged [B] people go,
Looking [Gb] for the [E] places only [B] they would know.
[Abm] Lie, lie, lie, _ lie, [Ebm] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, [Abm] lie, _ [Gb] lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, [B] lie, lie. _ _ _
_ _ Asking only workers' wages, I come [Gb] looking [Abm] for a job, but [Gb] I get no offers,
_ Just to come home from the whores on [B] 7th Avenue. _ _
[Gb] I do [Abm] declare there [Gb] were times when [E] I was so alone, so I took some [B] comfort there.
[Gb] La la la la la la_
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [B] _ [E] _ [Gb] _
_ [E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Abm] La la la, la la [Ebm] la la la, [Abm] la la la, _ [Gb] la la la la, la [B] la la la la.
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [B] And I'm laying out my winter clothes and [Abm] wishing I was home, going [Gb] home.
_ Where the New York City winters [B] aren't bleeding me, _ [Ebm] _ bleeding _
[Abm] _ me, [Gb] going home. _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ In the clearing stands a boxer and a [Gb] fighter [Abm] by his train, [Gb] and he carries the reminders
of every glove that made him [B] down or cupped him till he cried out in [Gb] his anger [Abm] and his shame,
[Gb] I am leaving, [E] I am leaving, but the fighter [Gb] still remains.
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_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ I [Gb] am _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ leaving, [Ebm] _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ I [Ebm] _
_ _ [Ab] am leaving, _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Ebm] _
_ _ _ [Ab] but _ [Gb] the fighter